Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-14
THE STATUE OF LEE.
PREPARATORY WORK or Tag RICH.
MoBD COMMITTEES.
Meeting to Arrange for Dedication o!
the Grounds and Laying Of the
Monument Cornerstone.

The Executive Committee and the
chairman OF each other committee oil
Lee Camp veterans charged with du.
ties in connection with the dedication
of the grounds and the laying of the
cornerstone Of the Lee monument will
meet at 81 o'clock tomorrow night in
the rooms of the Chamber of Com
merce. They will discuss the pro-
Rramme and finances. There is con.
stantly-increasing interest in this mat.
ter. Therefore it is pretty sure that
the attendance Will be large.
DECORATIONS.
Mr.. Elder and Mr.. Sheppard and
Mr. Daniel have excellent ideas about
decorating the city.
The work they did mere in 1881
yorktown celebration) is guarantee
that they know what to do now and how
to DO It.
One of Mr.. Elders suggestions is to
make in plaster a colossal figure OF
Fame placing the laurel wreath upon
the brow of General Lee, and locate it
at the Franklin-street entrance of the
monument-grounds. Money will be
needed, but no extravagant sums.
The city appropriated $l5, 900 for the
Yorktown celebration, and ought not
to expect to do less for the Lee monu-
ment.
GRAFTON.
The orator of the day will be Colonel
Charles Marshall, now of Baltimore,
who was General Lees military secre-
tary and bosom friend. To him the
Lee family turned over all the material
they possessed that he might write an
authorized life of the General-a work
ON which he has been engaged for
years. He is a man of scholarship and
is good speaker. With him will come
to Richmond about thousand of Bal
timores active and veteran military.
THE STATUE.
Miss Sarah n. Randolph and Colonel
Archer Anderson, who are members OF
the Lee Monument Association, are
both in Europe, and both will proba-
DIy see MtTCie, tuc sculptor.
The monument plan he first sent will
be accepted with few changes. The
remodelled horse that he sent here q
few months ago meets the views of the
association, and now he has only to
model the rider on the horse. That
done acceptably, he will be allowed to
proceed with the modelling according
to contract.
SITE AND COMMITTEE.
As often before stated in these
columns the site of the monument is
the Allen lot, at the west end Of Frank
lin street and not far from Richmond
College and the baseball grounds.
The monument will be located in
spacious circle at the intersection OF
two broad avenues. The grounds are
in Benrico county, just beyond the
city limits, but will at once be laid off
in avenues, streets, alleys, and lots,
and at the next session Of the General
Assembly the corporate limits will no
dou6t be extended to take in this
territory, which is in the growing and
fashionable West End, where property
is already high and is getting higher.
The chairman of the General Com
mittee of Lee Camp is General John
Il. Cooke, whose name, especially with
and North Carolinians, is q
synonym for courage, modesty, and |
straightforwardness, and his associates
are all men we'll qualified to render him
efficient help.
General Beauregard, it is expected,
will be the chief marshal of the parade,
but as he cannot be here until that day
the first assistant will be the man upon
whom will devolvc most of the labor of